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2018-08-16 20:36:57 +00:00
# After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?
You may want to make explicit that Sarah is speaking of the pleasure of having a baby. Sarah used this rhetorical question because she did not believe that she could have a child. Alternate translation: "I am worn out and my master is old, so I cannot believe that I will experience the joy of having a child."" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# I am worn out
"I am too old to conceive a child"
# my master is old
This means "since my husband is also old."
# my master
2017-12-07 06:38:15 +00:00
This is a title of respect that Sarah gave to her husband Abraham.